radiography of spine (vertebral imaging)

Indications

• spine disease
  • scoliosis
  • kyphosis
• spinal cord disease
• coccygodynia
• sciatica
• low back pain
• spinal stenosis
  • lumbar spinal stenosis
  • cervical spinal stenosis
• dystrophic calcification
• cervicobrachial syndrome
• cervicocranial syndrome
• neck pain
• post laminectomy syndrome
• disc disease
  • degenerative disc disease
  • lumbar disc disease
• Schmorl's node
• osteoarthritis
• spine trauma
• diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH)
• spondylosis
• spondyloarthropathy
• spondylitis
• enthesopathy
• evidence of osteopenia or osteoporosis
  • women >= 70 years & men >= 80 years if T-score at the spine total hip or femoral neck is <= -1.0
  • women age 65-69 & men age 75-79 if T-scor at the spine total hip or femoral neck is <= -1.5
  • postmenopausal women age 50-64 years & men age 50-69 years with risk factors
    • low-trauma fracture
    • historic height loss of >= 1.5 inches (>= 4 cm)
    • height loss of >= 0.8 inches (>= 2 cm)
    • recent or ongoing long-term glucocorticoid therapy

More general terms

• radiography (roentgenography)

More specific terms

• radiography of cervical spine
• radiography of coccyx
• radiography of lumbar spine
• radiography of sacrum
• radiography of thoracic spine